Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City

Magali Cornier Michael is Professor of English at Duquesne University, USA, and has authored Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction (2014), New Visions of Community in Contemporary American Fiction: Tan, Kingsolver, Castillo, Morrison (2006), and Feminism and the Postmodern Impulse: Post-World War II Fiction (1996), as well as numerous essays on contemporary literature.

• 1. Introduction: Twenty-First-Century British Fiction and the City: Magali Cornier Michael.- 2. “Why Should You Go Out?”: Encountering the City in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane: Nick Bentley.- 3. The Cosmopolitan Potential of Urban England?: Jon McGregor’s If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things: Magali Cornier Michael.- 4 “We exist only in the reflection of others”: Imagining London’s History in Bernadine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: Nicola Allen.- 5. Gated Communities and Dystopia in J.G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes: Francesco Di Bernardo.- 6. Celetoids and the City: Tabloidization of the Working Class in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Martin Amis’ Lionel Asbo: State of England: Megan Faragher.- 7. Belonging and Un-belonging in London: Representations of Home in Diana Evans’ 26a: Katie Danaher.- 8 Between Urban Ecology and Social Construction: Environment and the Ethics of Representation in Zadie Smith's NW: John Hadlock.- 9.The Queer Gothic Spaces of Contemporary Glasgow: Louise Welsh’s The Cutting Room: Emily Horton.- 10      Convulsions of the Local: Contemporary British Psychogeographical Fiction: Ella Mudie.- 11. Trauma, Negativities and the City in Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me: Philip Tew.